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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JLowder" data-source="post: 9696564" data-attributes="member: 28003">The damage is far more direct. The publishers all paid for these specific products to be printed, and the money that went into printing and shipping and warehousing the copies held hostage is possibly lost, with no hope of recovery. They are also directly losing out on money to be made when these specific products sell. If Diamond blows out these products to a remainder house, they will then be available at discount rates and will undermine sales of other copies of the work (if the publisher does not have all their stock held hostage at Diamond). The same if the publisher is tempted to go back to print (a very expensive proposition) in hopes of recovering some of the money they invested in creating the products in the first place. The discount products will undermine those new sales, too.This direct damage will spread throughout the publishing ecosystem. For products where the creators receive royalties for sales, for example, they will likely receive nothing, since contracts generally specify payment is only owed after money is received for the sales. The publisher gets stiffed, they may not owe anything to the creators. Even if they want to pay creators, they may not have the funds to do so.This also chokes off cash flow the publishers are counting on to pay for the next books they have on the schedule. Those projects may be delayed or cancelled, and freelancer rates lowered, and on and on.Between the debt accrued by old Diamond and the smash-and-grab being run by new Diamond, I expect some publishers to close shop. The mid-tier places are the most vulnerable, as they have larger print runs and tend to invest more in creators when making their products. Tabletop has seen this before when other distributors in the market (Wizards Attic, Osseum, etc) failed. The tabletop market has been hollowing out in the middle for decades, and this will only accelerate that change.</blockquote>

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